Privacy

01Contact

For any request about your data (to see it, correct it, delete it or take it with you), write to legal@academythecircle.com. We reply within one month.

02What data we collect

Only what you enter in the application form:

• Identity and contact details: first and last name, age, email, mobile number and, if you give it, your Instagram.
• Your project: whether you're able to invest, your budget, when you want to start, what motivates you and where you found The Circle.
• Where you came from: the source of your visit (for example, an Instagram link), so we know which channels work.

If you go ahead with the mentorship, we add what's needed to run it: payments, sessions and your progress.

03What we use it for

• Assessing your application and talking to you about the programme — this is what you ask for when you send the form (steps prior to entering into a contract, Article 6(1)(b) of the GDPR).
• Providing the mentorship, if you join: performance of the contract.
• Keeping the page secure and measuring which channels bring in applications — legitimate interest, using aggregated figures that don't include your name, email, phone number or answers.

We don't sell your data, we don't use it for third-party advertising, and applying doesn't sign you up to any newsletter.

04Who else receives it

Only the members of The Circle team who handle your application and, if you join, your mentor. To run the page we use providers that process data solely on our behalf:

• Hosting and platform — the server the platform runs on and the people who build and maintain it.
• Cloudflare — delivering the page and protecting it against attacks.
• Calendly — only if you choose to book a call; it receives your name and email.
• Video provider — only contacted when you tap the video.

Some of these providers may process data outside the European Economic Area. When that happens, it's with the safeguards the GDPR requires, such as the European Commission's standard contractual clauses.

05How long we keep it

• Applications that don't lead to the mentorship: 12 months after the last contact. After that period, your personal data is deleted automatically.
• Students: for as long as the mentorship lasts and, after that, only for as long as the law requires (for example, for tax purposes).

06Your rights

At any time and free of charge, you can:

• find out what data we hold about you and receive a copy;
• correct anything that's wrong;
• ask us to delete it;
• object to a processing operation or ask us to restrict it;
• take your data with you in a commonly used format.

Just write to legal@academythecircle.com. If you think we haven't handled your data properly, you can lodge a complaint with the Portuguese data protection authority, the Comissão Nacional de Proteção de Dados (CNPD).

07What stays in your browser

While you fill it in, your browser saves your answers for the session so you can come back to the form without losing anything. That draft stays only on your device, is deleted when your application is sent, and you can delete it at any time under “Data and privacy” at the bottom of the page.

Your browser also saves where you came from (for example, the Instagram link you tapped). This only reaches us if you send your application.

We don't use cookies or advertising pixels.

08Ages 18 and over only

The Circle Academy is for people aged 18 and over only. We don't accept applications from minors and, if we receive one by mistake, we delete it.